Affirmations and Quotations
Change
You are not here to change the world, The world is here to change you.
—Shantidasa
It is when the endings and the time of fallow neutrality are finished that we can launch ourselves out anew, changed and renewed by the destruction of the old life-phase and the journey through the nowhere…It also represents the inner side of the transition process—which is a process, after all, and not a three-positioned switch. Even though the external “new beginning” may happen very quickly once it becomes evident, the internal identification and engagement occur more slowly.
—William Bridges
We must be the change we wish to see in the world
—Mahatma Gandhi
If you want to make minor, incremental changes and improvements, work on practices, behavior or attitude. But if you want to make significant, quantum improvement, work on paradigms.
—Stephen R. Covey
In this life we will encounter hurts and trials that we will not be able to change; we are just going to have to allow them to change us.
—Ron Lee Davis
Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.
—Simone Weil
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious behavior.
—Henry David Thoreau
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
—Socrates
Success is failure with the dirt brushed off.
—Mamie McCullough
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
—Samuel Johnson
Charter is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.
—Marion L. Burton
No stair is steep to happy feet!
—Mary F. Robinson
The greatest truths are the simplest; and so are the greatest men.
—Julius C. Hare
Success is failure with the dirt brushed off.
—Mamie McCullough
Charter is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.
—Marion L. Burton
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